Don't hire women for equality's sake!

With plans for the EU to enforce a minimum quota of women on company boards being postponed last night after meeting tough opposition, the controversial debate is set to rumble on.

We enjoyed Thomas de Freitas’s piece for Real Business highlighting that after Marjorie Scardino stands down from Pearson at the end of 2012, this leaves only 3 women standing on FTSE 100 company boards. Here is his article in technicolour: http://bit.ly/RTJvjw via @realbusiness